#panhellenic exams

[sugaroto]

I still don't understand why people are posting an Instagram story of their panhellenic results

Like. Why

Good for you congrats but why did you take a screenshot and posted all the details

[strwaberrydude]

I just woke up but the only thing running through my mind is how do I get everything done today😭 Also, look at how much my little mango baby has grown.

Things to do:

Physics hw

Chem hw

Biology theorie

Greek hw

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Panhellenic exams starter pack!

GOOD SUCCESS MY BIRDIES!!

[biopanik]

Με δυσκολία μπορώ να πιστέψω πως θα δίνω κι εγώ του χρόνου. Είναι αστείο πόση σημασία αποδίδουμε σε αυτές τις εξετάσεις για αυτό θα ήθελα να θυμίσω σε όλους ότι δεν σας απαξιώνει ο βαθμός που θα προκύψει από ο,τι γράψετε και πως αν δεν πετύχετε δε σηματοδοτεί το τέλος του κόσμου. Παρ' όλα αυτά, θα ήθελα να ευχηθώ σε όλους όσους δίνουν σήμερα καλή τύχη.

[gatoskylo]

The first day went exactly as I wanted to! I’m really confident now! Wow!

[sugaroto]

I think ... I saw a dream that I was giving the panhellenic exams again

And I was writing an essay on Laios and his monster eating obsession. Like, when did it start exactly and why

For some reason I was writing on the computer, and I also edited a pic of him and a dog with a burger on the corner

But then realized I had half an hour left and still hadn't read the reading, I was just writing ~cause I knew~ but then I started reading to actually write the answers (or check mine) and a bunch of babies appeared and started talking to me and putting their hands on my work cause I was ignoring them

[sugaroto]

Panelele* story time

*Panhellenic exams, aka will define whether I go into uni or not

Day 1: Essay, aka greek

Our theme was feminism and women's rights. I think i did ok? Tho I finished like an hour earlier and then started panicking cause I finished earlier and didn't dare to leave the classroom. I literally checked everything like 15 times and even counted my words on theme Γ and Δ (Γ =literature exercise, Δ=essay) and then I panicked again cause I was -20 words on the essay

A good thing is that the day before I was reading some old essays of mine and I happened to read one I had written about human rights (this was probably the best one I've ever written since I got 25/30) and I remembered 2 paragraphs I had about women and wrote everything on my essay, tho it was a little messier of course but at least I had the ideas ready?

One thing the whole school agreed on is that once we got out we all laughed on [that one guy] (misogynist, racist, homophobic etc kinda guy) that probably failed

Most of us dislike him and once we got out we were like "GUYS. HIM" And then laughed about it. Sorry not sorry. He wants to be a politician, I hope he wont succeed. The country is already bad as it is

Also, a lot of people (online) were commenting on Text 2, cause "I was so glad when I saw feminism was the theme, but once I read text 2 I was dissapointed to see it still misogyny"

Which yeah, I get where they're coming from, the author was like "new feminism is bad and likes victim-culture, classic old feminism is good" and... also the description said something about identity of genders which sounded very queer to me so I thought the author might originally be attacking trans people but the actual text did not mention trans people

Also. None of that matters. Yeah the text was bullshit, was my job to listen to it? No my job was to find what gave away that the author was using comparison on the second paragraph. I literally had to find the words "on the contrary" and "but" (αντιθέτως, όμως) and say why they meant comparison

I was so focused on that that when I noticed something was weird with the text I just went like "Huh... weird ....*circles*ΑΝΤΙΘΈΤΩΣ"

Also, the whole point is to keep it neutral and not be controversial, I could write that all women are witches that should be burn if it was my opinion but if I wrote it reasonably and fair enough it'd still be acceptable

Probably the most controversial in my essay was the mention of "hijab" which I tried to be very neutral about

Day 2: ancient greek

2 parts, γνωστό & άγνωστο aka (known & unknown)

Known: what we have been taught in class, texts from ancient dudes we have to know the meaning about

Unknown: text we've never seen before in our lives but we're supposed to know enough grammar and translate it ourselves and answer questions about grammar

Known: absolute bullshit. Aristotle. Fuck you Aristotle. We were sure we'd have the text about Alexander, but no it had to be Aristotle's town. I didn't know shot I messed up on that part

Unknown: disaster. The text was some dude whining to Socrates cause his son wanted a σοφιστη teacher, the grammar ruined me. I wrote σχε, the right was σχες, I wrote αγενου, the right was αγενους, I wrote ραον/ραδιον, the right was ραδιον/ραον. I was crying two days about it. The whole word is considered wrong. I get nothing for the effort of trying to figure out that έχειν becomes σχε(ς) in β' πρόσωπο προστακτικής αορίστου β or something and also that is a fucking ανώμαλο

Also. They were this close 🤏 to fail me, cancel me before we were even given the exam

Cause, in order to do all that grammar shit, we need to make a draft

So since we had to be in the room for the next 50 minutes or something waiting, I started making a draft of some very basic nouns and verbs bc knowing me I'd forget everything once I was given the exam

And im like "sorry is it OK I wrote with a pencil?"

"YOU WROTE? THIS CAN GET YOU CANCELED ITS CONSIDERED CHEATING" *αντιγραφή as in "copying" as if I have the answers next to me and I'm copying them

And im like "I didn't copy them," I literally just wrote them and birthed the thoughts out of my fucking mind what the fuck is the difference if I do it now or in 30 minutes

And im like should I erase it? It's pencil I'm not cheating I literally JUST ANAPNOH GAMOTO OLOI OI MALAKES EPITORITES SE MENA

And they call some other teachers and I guess who was supposed to be the boss was like "nah keep it who cares its ok"

And then, when I was done with the exam, cause I had shitted my pants cause of that, I started erasing the draft just in case AND THE MOMENT I DID this freaking bitch gets up and goes and talks to the the other teacher while looking at me and then they call the boss again and I hear him whispering "it's ok"(δεν πειράζει)

But I was so sure they would cancel me the moment I got up so I sat there for like 30 minutes in fear that if I got up they'd tell me "sorry you failed cause you erased the draft we let you keep"

Day 3: latin

We're given the exam right?

I start writing

The teacher brings her chair next to my desk and rests her hand on my desk

(THE PAIN OF HAVING TO SEAT ON THE FRONT FUCKING DESK)

Ok... maybe she wants to do her job which is to keep an eye on students. She's not bothering me yet

She grabs my ID card (we were given those in order to participate) and reads it...

Ok...

She lets it down

She grabs my sharpener and looks at it, she lets it down

Why. The. Fuck. Is. She. Touching. My. Things.

She gets bored and starts drumming her fingers on the desk. I give her a death stare( and so does my friend on the other desk) but look back down as soon as she looks back at me

She SPEAKS TO ME "Είναι πολλά τα θέματα;" (does the exam has a lot of parts?)

Considering they almost failed me the other day (different people) and im not allowed to... like have a chit chat- like this is a serious exam there's seriously a police officer outside- I don't know what to do I just shrugged at her

"Ok let me see then" AND SHE GRABS THE EXAM FROM MY HANDS WHILE I WAS FUCKING WRITING TO "SEE" AND IM LIKE "πρέπει να γραψω"(I have to write) and SHES LIKE OH YEAH RIGHT AND GIVES IT BACK

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

I THINK THATS ILLEGAL AND I FELT ASSAULTED

THIS IS LIKE THE MOST IMPORTANT EXAM IN MY LIFE SO FAR AND SHE HAS THE AUDACITY TO BOTHER ME CAUSE SHES BORED

YOU CANT JUST GRAB MY EXAMS LIKE THAT

ALSO IT WAS DEAD SILENCE IN THERE UNTIL I SPOKE "I HAVE TO WRITE" AND PEOPLE LOOKED AT ME BUT THE ONES THAT WERE CLOSE HAD PICKED UP ON THE FACT THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING FUCKING WRONG WITH HER

My friend who I'm together in tutoring class and was sitting on the other side of the classroom was like was that sugar? But she didn't dare to look up or speak bc she understood something was off

Like

WHAT the actual fuck

Do they check the teachers before they bring them in? Wtfwtfwtfwtfwtwtf

I couldn't focus after that

Thankfully Latin is my fave class and the texts we had to translate were easy

But holy fucking shit

And I did do a mistake on the translation cause I wrote "αναδεικνύει" instead of "ανταποκρίνοταν" so I later when I was checking my answers I asked where I had to write the right word bc there was no space so I needed to leave a note and she was like "I don't think we can answer now that everyone has left" (we were only 3 students in the class by then) WELL MAYBE I WOULDN'T HAVE MADE A MISTAKE IF SOMEONE DIDN'T GRAB MY EXAMS WHILE I WAS TRANSLATING

Day 4: History

History is my worst class. The teachers were normal. Nobody tried to fail me before I was given the exams.

I didn't have high hopes for history because I've never gotten a good grade but my tutor believes I was lucky enough cause everything that was on the exam was something I liked and knew(according to her, according to me I hate it all)

The good news is that on the first πηγή* my answer was very big, first time that happens I always fail on my πηγές

Also there was a question about what the first government of Crete did and I had no idea what the first government of Crete even was but I remember there was a list of 12 things that were done in Crete so I just wrote that cause it was the only thing I knew

Turns out that was the right answer, I found it out by pure luck

Also turns out there were 9 things, but in the end I had only found 5 so ok

*πηγή they give us a bunch of texts and we have to write "according to the text and then according to what I know *answers questions*"

Day 5: I still have English on Saturday and idk what will happen. That was a choice exam

[sugaroto]

Το θέμα είναι ότι ενώ έχω επιλογές ταυτόχρονα δεν έχω

Δεν ξερω τι θελω

Και δεν ξέρω τι κερδίζω από αυτά που νομίζω ότι θέλω

Στην τελική απλά προσπαθώ να γεμίσω το μηχανογραφικο μ χωρίς λογο

Πρώτη επιλογή αγγλική φιλολογία Αθήνας, 17.000 μόρια, 13.000 εγω

Ξέρω ότι δεν έχω καμία ελπίδα, κ δεν ήθελα καν αγγλική φιλολογία δεν υπάρχει λογος

Με ένα τέτοιο σκεπτικό βάζοντας τις υψηλές σχολές με προτίμηση καταλήγω να έχω βάλει 13

Και η 14η είναι η κρίσιμη γιατί κατά πάσα πιθανότητα περνάω στην 14η

Αλλά έχω μείνει με επιλογές που δεν αναγνωρίζω και δεν θέλω

Σχολές που περνάω γιατί έχω 2.000 μόρια παραπάνω αλλά δεν θελω

Και σχολές που λογικά περνάω γιατί είμαι κοντά αλλά δεν έχουν μέλλον.... ή έχουν μέλλον σε 10 χρόνια...

Η καθηγήτρια μ είπε να συζητήσω κάτι με τους φίλους μ αλλά τι μπορώ να συζητήσω με άτομα που σκόπευαν να βάλουν 3 σχολές στο μηχανογραφικο τους γιατί είναι σίγουροι ότι περνάνε μέχρι και την 3η επιλογή τους

Εμένα η πρώτη μ επιλογή είμαι η 14η

Γιατί η εβε μ έδωσε 27 επιλογές, ενώ τα μόρια που έγραψα μου αφήνουν γύρω στις 12 (μαζί με την εβε)

Και δεν νομίζω ότι θέλω να γίνω διευθυντής σε ξενοδοχείο, ή οτιδήποτε σε ξενοδοχείο. Δεν ξέρω τι θέλουν αυτές οι τουριστικες

Απο την άλλη μου μένουν τα τεχνολογικά/ψηφιακά που δεν έχω ιδέα τι είναι